[cfe-users] Trying to build clang but don't appear to have it in the source

[Larry Evans]

On 07/08/2014 02:28 PM, Iain Barnett wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  From the Clang Get Started page, http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
>
>  > Clang is released as part of regular LLVM releases. You can download
> the release versions from http://llvm.org/releases/
>
> I downloaded it, and built it. No clang was installed. I grepped the
> downloaded source and clang doesn't appear to be in there.
>
>      $ ls -lR llvm-3.4.2.src/ | grep clang
>      -rwxr-xr-x   1 iainuser  iainuser   3249 22 Dec  2012
> clang-parse-diagnostics-file
>      -rw-r--r--  1 iainuser  iainuser    401 24 Sep  2013
> mergefunctions.clang.svn.patch
>
> The bin/ that was produced by the LLVM build:
>
>      $ ls -R
>      bugpoint         llvm-as          llvm-diff        llvm-lto
> llvm-readobj     llvm-tblgen
>      llc              llvm-bcanalyzer  llvm-dis         llvm-mc
>   llvm-rtdyld      macho-dump
>      lli              llvm-c-test      llvm-dwarfdump   llvm-mcmarkup
>   llvm-size        opt
>      lli-child-target llvm-config      llvm-extract     llvm-nm
>   llvm-stress
>      llvm-ar          llvm-cov         llvm-link        llvm-objdump
> llvm-symbolizer
>
> I'm not entirely clear what I should be doing, other that pulling down
> the source via SVN, but I'd prefer a release than a checkout.
>
> If anyone can point me in the correct direction for the last release of
> Clang, I'd be very grateful.
>
> Regards,
> Iain
>
Are you sure you did step 3:

Checkout Clang:

     cd llvm/tools
     svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk clang
     cd ../..

It doesn't look like it since that should have produced a clang
directory; yet, that doesn't appear in your `ls -lR` output.

HTH.

-regards,
Larry